Diario AS (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjaɾjo ˈas]) (sometime stylized as ASorAs; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈas]) is a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on football.
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| Type | Daily sports newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | PRISA |
| Founder(s) | Luis Montiel Balanzat |
| Publisher | Ignacio Díez |
| Editor | Vicente Jimenez |
| Founded | 6 December 1967; 56 years ago (1967-12-06) |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | Madrid |
| Circulation | 214,654 (2006) |
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| ISSN | 1888-6671 |
| Website | as |
Diario AS is part of PRISA which also owns El País and Cinco Días.[1] The paper particularly covers news of the Community of Madrid football teams: Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid, Getafe CF, CD Leganés, and Rayo Vallecano. It competes directly with MARCA. In addition to Madrid, the newspaper also has satellite bureaus in Barcelona, Bilbao, A Coruña, Seville, Valencia and Zaragoza.
In May 2012, the newspaper launched an English language sub-site offering original journalism and articles translated from the original Spanish by native English-language speakers, as well as their own content. The circulation of Diario AS was 181,172 copies in 2001[2] and 176,892 copies in 2002.[3] It rose to 214,654 copies in 2006.[4]
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